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H.Res. 488 (115th)

Of inquiry requesting the President and directing the Attorney General to transmit, respectively, certain documents to the House of Representatives relating to the removal of former Federal Bureau of Investigation Director James Comey.

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Introduced

28 July 2017

Last action

28 September 2017 · Reported

Status

Placed on the House Calendar, Calendar No. 88.

Sponsors

David Cicilline, Pramila Jayapal, Jerrold Nadler, Marcy Kaptur, Henry Johnson, Steve Cohen, Dwight Evans, A. McEachin, Barbara Lee, Peter Welch, Bradley Schneider, Raja Krishnamoorthi, NITA LOWEY, Earl Blumenauer, Zoe Lofgren, Brad Sherman, Cedric Richmond, Eric Swalwell, LUIS GUTIERREZ, Adam Smith, Jamie Raskin, Julia Brownley, Ted Lieu, Keith Ellison

Subjects

Discovery layer

Source updated

7 April 2025

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Summary

Requests the President and directs the U.S. Attorney General to transmit to the House of Representatives copies of any document or communication in their possession that refers or relates to: the firing of James B. Comey as Director of the Federal Bureau of Investigation; the participation of Attorney General Jeff Sessions in Comey's removal; the scope or application of Sessions's recusal from investigations of matters related to the presidential campaign and the application of such recusal to Comey's removal; the scope or application of executive privilege as applied to Sessions's testimony before the Senate Select Committee on Intelligence on June 13, 2017; President Trump's Twitter statement on May 12, 2017, that "James Comey better hope that there are no tapes of our conversations before he starts leaking to the press!"; any system used by the White House to secretly record conversations between the President and Comey; any contemporaneous account of any meeting between such individuals; any communication Donald Trump, Jr., Paul Manafort, or Jared Kushner may have had with Sessions or Comey that relates to their June 9, 2016, meeting with Natalia Veselnitskaya, Rinat Akhmetshin, and Irakly Kaveladze; any analysis regarding the violation of any criminal law with respect to such meeting as it may pertain to a federal campaign's attempt to obtain information that would incriminate Hillary Clinton from a foreign government; and the disposition or review of any application for a security clearance submitted by Kushner or Sessions.

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Timeline

  1. 28 July 2017

    Introduced

    Referred to the House Committee on the Judiciary.

    Source: IntroReferral

  2. 28 July 2017

    Introduced

    Introduced in House

    Source: IntroReferral

  3. 28 July 2017

    Introduced

    Introduced in House

    Source: IntroReferral

  4. 7 September 2017

    Vote

    Ordered to be Reported Unfavorably (Amended) by the Yeas and Nays: 23 - 8.

    Source: Committee

  5. 7 September 2017

    Committee

    Committee Consideration and Mark-up Session Held.

    Source: Committee

  6. 28 September 2017

    Reported

    Reported adversely (Amended) by the Committee on Judiciary. H. Rept. 115-335.

    Source: Committee

  7. 28 September 2017

    Calendars

    Placed on the House Calendar, Calendar No. 88.

    Source: Calendars

  8. 28 September 2017

    Reported

    Reported adversely (Amended) by the Committee on Judiciary. H. Rept. 115-335.

    Source: Committee

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